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gosh isn't her cat svelte sleek black cat as it ages seems to be turning into a tea bag a large fat tea bag that has been used too often faded to spotty sable and definitely leaking. patrick mcmanus raynes park ,uk 9am, 7/09/03 tricky very tricky hot so hot so very hot camera camera singes burnt fingers light stabs through lens won't focus the film has melted is dripping onto floor photographer in danger of instantaneous spontaneous combustion worries about his snapshot perhaps a pinhole camera obscura he badly needs a drink. patrick mcmanus raynes park -uk 7am, 7/16/03 blankscreen wednesday! snapshot day blankscreen sitting here looks at ceiling looks at floor looks at keyboard blankscreen Her cat walks in flaunts triumphs in caught a mouse shows mouse very dead mouse sleek soft fur cat waits for approbation clever cat good boy cat walks out to show Her thoughts of Her cat wrestling in a coypu flit across my mind blankscreen. pmcmanus 8am cool raynes park 7/23/03 Wednesday! emails arrive pouring in full of wild snapshots daunting! terrifying! and Inside he sits at computer hunting for an idea for a poem and Outside her cat hunting for a moth small moth her cat resembles a statue 'Heroic Cat' all tense concentrated slightest movement tip of tail skillfully steeling himself ready to pounce! but cheerily unaware moth flits away and cat collapses dissappointed devastated exhausted saunters in he and cat sit down to have a drink together man coffee cat milk brothers. patrick mc manus 7am,raynes park ,uk, 7/30/03 IT SAID it said on the radio 'the composer was killed crushed to death under his scores' sitting here I wonder if that pile stack -tip mini mountain of poems that I've written will one day crash down tumble -landslide upon me perhaps to wear a crash helmet when writing? patrick mcmanus 17-39 raynes park -uk KINDLY kindly given to me large print brochure 'O.A.P. Festival' Festival for O.A.P.s mentions goodies mentions delights how to cope with alzheimers mobility for elderly and much more sadly not much about marathon running lovely lap dancers loud rock concerts boozing and sex and daily orgies I sort of lost it coming home. pmcmanus 8am raynes park uk 13/8/3 LARKIN all this talk learned chat furious discussion soul searching impassioned stands such wise words about Larkin Larkin more Larkin and Larkin I sneaked out past my very dusty copy long unopened copy of 'High Windows' out into the fresh air sunny garden with some great sf and fantasy a tad guiltily. patrick mcmanus 8am raynes park uk YES! yes! he thought one step one step at a time but which? which foot? foot first? left foot? or right foot? left? right? left? or? ? ? or? yes! he thought perhaps a double foot footed leap and tripped and fell badly very badly badly. pmcmanus 8am raynes park uk THE PICTURE sometimes he got the picture the whole picture but often when he did it was out of focus or sort of smudged or had a terrible frame but often bits of of it were missing been slashed or rotted away but the bits he got he treasured taking on trust that those bits were in fact part of the picture and not just scraps blowing by or flakes fallen from somehwere somewhere else. patrick mcmanus 8am raynes park -uk SNAPSHOTS? snapshots snapshots?emails! check snapshots! kinky freaky hardcore! half off viagra! coroqtine trostovere! is that really you? hilsen fra line burn fat 24hours a day! teen pussy! painting without numbers re: what does it mean grow your penis 4 inches! ninth symphony add new manhood growth! this is hot! paul murphy paints re: snapshot reminder nicole enjoys some.... real girls want action! ekphrasis! why the silence? virginia dark as air re: what does it mean svp reminder increase two cup sizes! re: belinda on frost's burning.... snapshot! hgh is 1oo%Herbal! winner best natural t*ts re: what does it mean snapshot re:hi mail delivery failed returning message to sender snapshot. patrickmcmanus 8am raynes park -london OLD he was getting old very old very very old nearly oldest old soon all that there will be left sadly will be wine,women and song and the odd london marathon occasional decathlon and possibly maybe writing poetry. patrick mcmanus 7am raynes park -london H*LP h*lp h*lp s*m*b*dy h*s t*k*n *ff th* v*w*ls fr*m h*s k*yb**rd h*w c*n h* d* h*s sn*psh*t? p*tr*ck mc 9*m r*yn*s p*rk *k ENDGAME he got to thinking now as he approached his twilight years he would cut back! on wine women and song say one percent for starters. pmcmanus 8am raynes park uk with sort of shaking hands pounding head in a sweat he tried to take his snapshot he worried that the picture would be unclear-fuzzy full of grain out of focus and filmspeed he would be overexposed! underexposed! mixed up clouds all shadowy and that stuff but then he thought maybe that's okay that's how he was it would be anyway after all a true picture of him just now today. patrick mcm 8am raynes park uk SNAPSHOT pmcmanus 08:03 raynes park uk thanks john cage RE ANOTHER POETRY FORUM Yes ok right but it seems all rather sad but been good to get to know so many people and I have just enjoyed it but as you say no place here for all of that but focus on experimental poetries in these islands not for gossip accusation irrelevant confession or innuendo. patrick mcm 8am raynes park london HE OBSERVES he observes that the big picture of his life the vast canvas of his existence seems to be shrinking has been shrinking for quite sometime from multi universes greater mega galaxies to worlds planets to circling moons to asteroids lumps to this morning as seen through his microscope to a quite maneagable friendly miniature a dancing mote. pmcmanus 7am raynes park-uk n305 IT SAID PRUNE! it said prune! cut back hard! after leafdrop! and suddenly he felt threatened felt vulnerable felt exposed had his leaves dropped? and he rushed back to her for reassurance and for comfort. pmcmanus 8am raynes park uk
HERS AND HIS
he looked across
at her books
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'Mintzberg,H. Five Ps for Strategy, in Mintzberg, H. Quinn,J. and Ghoshal,
S. The Strategy Process. 1998. Prentice Hall Europe, Hemel Hempstead.
Whipp, R. Creative Deconstruction: Strategy and Organisations, in Clegg,S.,
Hardy,C., and Nord,W. Managing Organisations: Current Issues. 1999, Sage,
London.
Andrews, K. The Concept of Corporate Strategy, in Mintzberg et al, 1998
op.cit.
Quinn,J and Voyer,J. Logical Incrementalism: Strategy Formation, in
Mintzberg et al, 1998 op.cit.
Mintzberg, H. Crafting Strategy. in Mintzberg et al. 1998, op.cit.
Joyce, P. and Woods, A. Essential Strategic Management. 1996.
Butterworth-Heinemann. Oxford
Hudson, M. Managing Without Profit. 2nd ed. 1999. Penguin, Harmondsworth
Mintzberg, H. The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning. 1994. Prentice Hall,
Hemel Hempstead.
Handy, C. Understanding Voluntary Organisations. 1990. Penguin,
Harmondsworth.
Darwin, J., Johnson, P. and McAuley, J. Developing Strategies for Change.
2002. Pearson Education, Harlow.
Stacey,R. Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics. 2nd ed. 1996.
Pitman, london
Bourgeois,L. Strategic management and determinism. Academy of Management
Review, 9(4): 586-96. in Whipp, op.cit
Donaldson, L American Anti-Management Theories of Organisation. 1995.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Grint, K. Fuzzy Management. 1997. Oxford University Press. Oxford.
DoH on health Act
Mintzberg, H. , Ahlstrand,B. and Lampel,J. Strategy Safari. 1998. Prentice
Hall, Hemel Hempstead
Weick, K. Sensemaking in Organisations, 1995. Sage, London
Kosko, B. Fuzzy Thinking. 1994. Flamingo. London
Pascale, R. Managing on the Edge. 1990. Penguin, London.
Jaques, E. Social Systems as Defence Against Persecutory and Depressive
Anxiety. in Klein, M, Heimann, P and Money-Kyrle, R. New Directions in
Psychoanalysis. 1955. Basic Books, New York.
De Board, R. The Psychoanalysis of Organisations. 2002. Brunner-Routledge.
Hove.
Stokes, J. Institutional Chaos and Personal Stress. in Obholzer, A. and
Roberts, V. The Unconscious at Work. 1994. Routledge, London.'
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and then
he looked across
at his books
Best SF,
Rattlebag,
Erotic Verse,
and thought
that perhaps
his were
rather more
fun.
pmcmanus 21-21 raynes park uk Modemless It's gone ! just a sad space a square of dust where it was with a few biscuit crumbs a sweet paper and some cat hairs friend said you need a bigger brain or two update screen all blank keyboard so still printer frozen all cut off from the poets just me and the cat which is trying to get out the door deserting me I suppose I could try to write a poem patrick 8-47 raynespark on some-one else's computer COMPUTER computer still off computer still gone what a gift! so much time time to do am accomplishing am getting done am getting ahead already moved several mountains and larger foothills but I do hope that it will come back soon. patrick mcmanus 16-41 raynes park UK
SNAPSHOT snapshot sneezing and coughing snapshot this morning you must be joking sniffings and splutterings snivellings grisellings hankies dank piling head hot pulsing bones all aching temperature soaring night shakey shaking day coming threatening frost cutting freezing systems collapsing snapshot sneeze and cough snapshot this morning sssnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee graahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaeea aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.. pmcmanus 8am raynespark uk WINTERSNAPS snapshot tricky lens all fogged film frozen up shutter willing but challenged and dim no light where's the aperture? make it grin wide show willing focus fixed blinding flash pictures gone to develop lost gone with the snows of yesteryear? pmcmanus raynes park 15-27 london uk +fv WORDS words the words have been piling up over xmas a backlog of poems unwritten threatening to overwhelm avalanche cascade down quick get the pen to paper or run fast very fast run. pmcmanus 23-29 raynes park uk PASSING CAROL SINGERS ....overheard ....... two young sweet blond blue eyed angelic carol singers 'that fucking cow! she was fucking in! didn't bloody answer! and we fucking sang! the bloody whole of fucking Wenceslas fucking cow fuck it!!!!!!!!!!... .......... pmcmanus n335 COMPUTERS computers with their power surges dodgy fuses encodings decodings imput overflows output overflows system errors false functions mismatched bauds countless viruses and more and lots and they have the gall to say try to tell us 'human error' pull the other plug you piles of rusting electronic junk. pmcmanus 10am raynes park uk NEWS just heard the news radio three my classic music station clonings and cricket mad Israeli ambassadors nuclears and presidents headscarves and strikes and more cloudy rain so much this so much that so much of everything all now comfortingly deeply securely buried under a torrent of rich warm Scarlatti. pmcmanus raynes park uk 21st jan 9am n 349 FEELING feeling feeling-well feeling crap this morning not up to much not up to anything anything demanding anything too stretching perhaps to just write this poem from the heart. pmcmanus n350 SNAPSHOT SNAPSHOT SNAPSHOT SnAPShOT snAPsHOt snAPsHOt snapshot sna*shot sn***hot *n****** ******** **''*''''' '''''''''''' .... .... . . . . . . . . pmcmanus Raynespark DREAMS dreams he dreamt often dreamt that he could stretch his hands concentrate then fly soar and zoom at thirty thousand feet but unfortunately one night he suddenly awoke with wind streaming through his hair and regretted but very briefly that he had not the foresight to strap a parachute onto his pajamas. pmcmanus 14-55 raynes park uk here now sitting here looking out from a rather gloomy small study packed with books over there south a few yards of reference books then up to ceiling double packed much recorded videos west area swamped by sixteenyards? poetry books poet authors above anthologies audio cassettes by the hundred music -'spoken word' buried in a rather battered sideboard in old office files then the north wall working face a cliff of actual writing files hardcopies -drafts-paper and odds some looking lost then back west -window still gloomy out there computer- printer -radio 'warmer -no rain' forecast hedge and Edwardian street newly much hewn tree now giving more light better do my snapshot sift incoming emails from flashy gaudy spam Oz promiscuous sprinklers gosh Iceland already dancing across page cat has chewed dragon plant again apparently not poisonous right then right but maybe a coffee first. pmcmanus raynes park london 09:00 nearly valentine's day SNAPSHOT snapshot sitting here all retired life passing by but thinking so enviously about all those snapshotters all you so lucky teaching in unis vast salaries plush offices air conditioned p.a.s secretaries suited flunkies delicious coffees danish pastries chilled waters tutoring lecturing to enraptured students kissing the ground that you walk on international conferencies symposiums pow-wows sundrenched beaches cocktail parties hats on drinkies so delicious loose bikinis little sandwiches lovely all tasty think I shall have another warm croissant read the paper a humble decaff write a poem and relate happily to the cat. pmcmanus 9am raynespark uk n364 SHOPPING shopping when he a bit bad tempered bit exhausted finally arrived home decidedly tetchy with his bags of groceries he sort of wondered if they were all there then had the good idea of checking the receipt which detailed said THN CT R/S ORNG CP FTRD CRSPY CH CP THN SLCD SMKD CP WSHD WHT POTS CP LTE PASTA CP FRDE RCH RS CP W/THN CKD HAM and a CP VIN DE PYS D' he suddenly felt a bit disorientated and hastily sat down and opened the CP VIN DE PYS D' and relaxed slightly. pmcmanus 8-30am RNS PRK NGLND n375
sssssssssssssssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn LINE DANCE joyfully cheerily dancing lightly writing speedily across the page he tripped up over a carelessly left fullstop which sort of sadly benumbed him. pmcmanus 9am raynespark london uk BIRTHDAY he was sort of suddenly feeling his age found himself hankering after mammoth stew or a big bit of spicey beherbed sabre tooth tiger. pmcmanus 9am raynes park uk. THE PICTURE the mural that I painted some years ago on the railway wall all bright all new clear and sharp has now mellowed a fine weathering burnishing of graffiti looks sort of settled accepted unlike a poem which never softens or fades. pmcmanus 9am raynes park uk E-MAILS AGAIN! oh! she said 'e-mails again! not those poets? what are they all on about this time?' he replied excitedly 'conflation morphology solipsystic hypermorality dialecticical triad biosemantica or centripetal numinous.langpo metanoia geist. transsubstantiation phylotic simularcra heartstrings plinking pinche hijo de la chingada. Information Theory introjective verse glossolalia multiple declensions litotic sprezzatura autopoiesis Hegelian sublation cave canem! or pussem exegesis _sine qua non_ poluphony lettristes, ultralettristes tamegaze petroglyphs Lyotard radical horror pleni jouissance Lacan, psychoanbalysis, heterogeneity buttinsky terza rima and Bataille of course Bataille!' but she had by then gone off to get haddock for lunch.. pmcmanus 7-32am raynespark london uk-n382 could either do the poems or the pictures? but one has to be the the first other the second but then which? pen or brush? brush or pen? picture poems? poems pictures? pen pictures? brush poems? or? or take my pills take my pills my pills pills pmcmanus 9am raynes pills uk after shamballing the moon pill perhaps too long last night SNAPSHOT snapping shut long shots last shots oh shit oh shat last calls last gasps keep focus hand steady closing time shutting down cameras could gather dust garner rust films mildew fall apart but maybe on an inspired sunny morning the odd potshot would be ok!! pmcmanus 08-17 raynes park london uk LAST SNAPSHOT jumping off the top of the cliff high cliff he took his last snapshot to be developed later by a someone else he sort worried that it was in focus shutter not jammed film in? etc but only briefly. pmcmanus 8-46 in drizzle in raynes park HE AWOKE he awoke with ten thousands thoughts in his head five thousands projects-dreams but some-how by breakfast time they had all sort of dwindled away to about none. pmcmanus 09-58 raynes park uk *** RELATIONSHIP she was finding that their relationship was rather like an archaeological dig she could use a j.c.b. at first then down to shovels and on to trowels but now it required a very fine brush with the lightest deftest strokes for any hope whatsoever. pmcmanus 5may04-n397 *** POST SADDAM when the liberators became the conquerors in prisons it was business as usual but now critically the oil flowed westwards. pmcmanus 7am raynes park uk *** LEAVE when he tucked up early morning in bed with her said when shall we leave? she sleepily dozily replied annual?study? sickness?parental? special?or other? and sort of drifted off. pmcmanus 6am raynesparkuk *** HONEYED WORDS unfortunately her sweet sugared honeyed words did him in as he was sadly a diabetes sufferer. pmcmanus raynes park uk 26th may 2004 *** poor Sharon a bunch of red red roses from raynes park land of sunshine and happiness grandpa pmmcmanus *** ALPHABETICALLY when at last the editors of the local anthology after endless discussion midnight sessions raised passions decided to put the poems democratically alphabetically by title just by title all hell broke out as to which alphabet actually to use. pmcmanus 7.04 raynesparkuk *** PROOFS she eagerly awaited the proofs of her next novel a mammoth science fantasy 'Shifting Sands Of Time' and when it finally arrived she opened the brown paper parcel fine artwork glossy cover on it glowed shone out 'Shitting Sons Of Thine' she glumly realised that there would be probably quite a lot of editing to do. pmcmanus 8-43 raynes park uk MEMORY his memory must be going he was sure he was certain that there was more than just the missionary position. pmcmanus 7.09am raynesparkuk SPECIAL TREAT feeling generous and for a special treat this year she decided that he would not have to go on holiday with them let him off the traditional family trip the stinking airports surly taxis lost tickets- missing passports delayed cooped up cattle packed flights skin cancerous beaches appalling hotel food ghastly drunken all night partying rowdy neighbours and and let him stay in his shed on his allotment with its excellent cool wine cellar cordon bleu lunches delivered to plot 137 by chef giovanni and enjoy the peace in his comfy lounger lulled by the strains of his favourite baroque music birdsong and golden sunsets glass in hand content pmcmanus @ beeson devon uk Poetryetc is a listserv relating to poetry and poetics which provides a forum for poets to debate their critical and creative work. The list has over the years run a number of projects for its members, of which Snapshots has been the most enduring. Every Wednesday, Poetryetc members were invited to post short poems on any subject or in any form they chose. The idea was to make a poetic collage of instamatic “snaps” of that day that reflected the international membership of the list. The project has generated an astounding number of poems. The first two runs, of six weeks each, and the first ten weeks of the third run, are archived at Wild Honey Press www.wildhoneypress.com under Poetryetc Project. The rest - amounting in all to a run of a year - are archived here. Poetryetc, like its affiliate Salt Publishing (http://www.saltpublishing.com), was founded by Australian poet John Kinsella. Salt is managed by Christopher Hamilton-Emery (cemery@saltpublishing.com), while Poetryetc is owned by Alison Croggon (ajcroggon@bigpond.com). Poetryetc is now archived at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/poetryetc.html. and anyone interested can join from that url. To contact the listowner: Alison Croggon These pages are designed, maintained, and hosted by Rebecca Seiferle, the Editor of The Drunken Boat. To email. 
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